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00:0032-year-old Ken Farhan Al-Qadi, who was among the hostages taken by Palestinian fighters
00:06known as Hamas on October 7, 2023, was found and rescued by the combined team of Special
00:12Forces of Israeli military on Tuesday leaving alone at underground tunnel in Gaza.
00:18The hostage was rescued looking healthy with smiles of joy seems to be on his face as he
00:23walked into the armed embrace of the Israeli soldiers as seen on video clips posted online
00:28by the Israeli military units.
00:30According to Israel Defense Forces, IDF, during a complex rescue mission, Ken Farhan Al-Qadi
00:38from the Bedouin community of Rahat who was kidnapped from Israel by Hamas terrorists
00:43during their massacre on October 7 has been rescued.
00:47He is alive, he is back home in Israel, stated as contained in the video announcement of
00:53the IDF spokesperson, Rear Admiral Daniel Hegary.
00:58Bodycam footage of the Israel Defense Forces rescue of Ken Farhan Al-Qadi, a Muslim Bedouin
01:04father of 11, after 326 days in Hamas captivity in Gaza was posted online by the soldiers.
01:13Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke with Farhan Al-Qadi shortly after he was rescued
01:18while undergoing medical attention at the hospital.
01:22The Prime Minister congratulated Al-Qadi and told him that the entire people of Israel
01:27was moved by his being freed.
01:30Prime Minister Netanyahu made it clear that he would continue to do everything to return
01:35all of our hostages home.
01:37Prime Minister Netanyahu also issued the following statement as reported by the Office of the
01:43Prime Minister.
01:44Welcome home Farhan Qadi.
01:46I commend the IDF and the ISA for another successful rescue operation.
01:52We are working relentlessly to return all of our hostages.
01:56We are doing this in two main ways, negotiations and rescue operations.
02:01The two of these together require our military presence on the ground and constant military
02:07pressure.
02:08We will continue to act until we return all of them home.
02:13The rescue of the 52-year-old man brought a rare moment of joy to Israelis after 10
02:18months of war but also served as a painful reminder that dozens of hostages are still
02:23in captivity as international mediators try to broker a ceasefire in which they would
02:28be released.
02:30Killed Farhan Al-Qadi was said to be alone on the ground Tuesday after 326 days of captivity
02:37in Gaza when Israeli forces scouring Hamas' vast tunnel network found and freed him.
02:43While narrating and discussing his ordeal in captivity with family, Israeli President
02:48Isaac Herzog and friends at the hospital, Al-Qadi said,
02:53Suddenly, I heard someone speaking Hebrew outside the door.
02:57I couldn't believe it.
02:58I couldn't believe it.
03:00Close watchers said he was the eighth hostage to be rescued by Israeli forces since about
03:06250 were kidnapped during the October 7, 2023 attack that ignited the war and the first
03:12to be found alive on the ground.
03:15Al-Qadi expressed gratitude during the call with Israeli President Isaac Herzog and urged
03:21his country's leaders to do everything possible to free the dozens still in captivity.
03:26Work 24 hours.
03:28Don't sleep until the return.
03:30People are really suffering.
03:32You can't imagine.
03:35He said, according to a transcript of the call provided by Herzog's office.
03:40Israel's military spokesman, Rear Admiral Daniel Hegery, said Al-Qadi was found in a
03:46southern Gaza tunnel where hostages were suspected to be alongside militants and explosives.
03:52He was held in a number of locations during his captivity, according to Hegery.
03:58Israeli Defense Minister Yov Galan said the rescue was part of the army's daring and
04:04courageous activities conducted deep inside the Gaza Strip.
04:08The military said it applied lessons learned during previous operations while rescuing
04:14Al-Qadi.
04:16Earlier in the war, Israeli troops who encountered three hostages inside Gaza accidentally shot
04:22and killed them.
04:25Al-Qadi was one of the eight members of Israel's Bedouin Arab minority abducted on October
04:317, according to ABC News.
04:34It was gathered that he was working as a guard at a parking factory in Kibbutz Magay, one
04:40of several farming communities that came under attack.
04:44He has two wives and is the father of 11 children, according to local media.
04:49AP reports that the IDF did not say much about the plan to free the captive, but a
04:55quite recent operation had led to the deaths of dozens of Palestinians.
05:00Reports indicate that Israel believes there are still 108 hostages in Gaza and that about
05:06one-third of them are dead.
05:08Most of the rest were freed during a week-long ceasefire in November in exchange for the
05:14release of Palestinians imprisoned by Israel.
05:18Footage released by the Israeli military showed Al-Qadi moments after the rescue.
05:23Unshaded and wearing a white tank top, he is seen sitting and smiling with soldiers
05:29before boarding a helicopter to a hospital.
05:32He appeared immersed but officials described his condition as stable.
05:37His large family gathered at the hospital in the southern Israeli city of Beersheba
05:42to welcome him home, according to ABC.
05:45The news network added that one of his brothers held Al-Qadi's infant son, who was born while
05:52he was in captivity and had not yet met his father, the brother said.
05:57We're so excited to hug him and see him and tell him that we're all here with him," a
06:03family member who gave his name as far as told Channel 12.
06:07I hope that every hostage will come home so the families can experience this happiness.
06:13Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu also spoke with Al-Qadi by phone soon after
06:18he arrived at the hospital.
06:20He said that Israel would rely on rescue operations and negotiations to bring the remaining hostages
06:27home.
06:28Both ways together require a military presence in the field, and on sensing military pressure
06:34on Hamas, Netanyahu said.
06:36Referring to Netanyahu by a traditional Arabic nickname, Al-Qadi thanked the prime minister
06:42for enabling him to see his family again, according to a video of the call provided
06:47by Netanyahu's office.
06:49Al-Qadi reminded Netanyahu that, there are others waiting, to which Netanyahu replied,
06:56we haven't forgotten anyone, just as we haven't forgotten you.
07:00It would be recalled that Hamas fighters abducted some 250 people during their October 7 attack
07:07in Israel in which some 1,200 people, mostly civilians, were killed.
07:13Israel's retaliatory offensive has killed more than 40,000 Palestinians, according to
07:19Gaza health officials, who do not say how many were militants.
07:24The retaliatory war displaced about 90 percent of Gaza's 2.3 million population from their
07:30homes and caused heavy destruction across the besieged territory.
07:35Local media reported that Israeli airstrikes continued on Tuesday across the Gaza Strip,
07:40and Palestinian officials said at least 18 people, including eight children, were killed
07:46in the attacks.
07:48Two previous Israeli operations to free hostages killed scores of Palestinians.
07:53Hamas says several hostages have been killed in Israeli airstrikes and failed rescue attempts.
08:00Three troops mistakenly killed three Israelis who escaped captivity in December.
08:05Mazen Abu Sayyam, a close family friend waiting at the hospital, said the family was overjoyed
08:12to hear the news, but they were still praying for a ceasefire.
08:16We are waiting for a deal for one year, Sayyam told the Associated Press.
08:22The United States, Egypt and Qatar have spent months trying to negotiate an agreement in
08:28which the remaining hostages would be freed in exchange for a lasting ceasefire.
08:33Those talks are ongoing, but there has been no sign of any breakthrough.
08:38Netanyahu has forced intense criticism from families of the hostages and much of the Israeli
08:44public for not yet reaching a deal with Hamas to bring them home.
08:49Hamas hopes to train the hostages for a lasting ceasefire, the withdrawal of Israeli troops
08:55from Gaza and the release of a large number of Palestinian prisoners, including high-profile militants.
09:02Last week, after the Israeli military recovered the bodies of six hostages in southern Gaza,
09:08Israel's military spokesperson, Hegari, said the army was working to gather more intelligence
09:14for rescue operations.
09:16But he added that we cannot bring everyone back through rescue operations alone.
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